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to a Communist Afghanistan, and fearing that the new regime would forcibly
try to supplant Islam with Communist atheism, political leaders from throughout
Nuristan convened and resolved to expel the Communist government from their
region. In October 1978, the Nuristanis launched the attack that sparked the
nationwide uprising against the Soviet-backed regime in Afghanistan.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Edelberg, Lennart, and Jones, Schuyler. Nuristan. Graz, Austria: Akademische Drucku.,
1979.
Robertson, George Scott. The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush. London: Lawrence & Bullen,
1896.
Strand, Richard F. "The Evolution of Anti-Communist Resistance in Eastern Nuristan."
In Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan, 1978-1982, edited by Robert L.
Canfield and M. Nazif Shahrani. In press.
. "Principles of Kinship Organization Among the Kom Nuristani." In Cultures
of the Hindukush: Selected Papers from the Hindu-Kush Cultural Conference held
at Moesgdrd, 1970, edited by Karl Jettmar in collaboration with Lennart Edelberg.
Wiesbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner, 1974.
Articles
Strand, Richard F. "The Changing Herding Economy of the Kom Nuristani." Afghanistan
Journal 2:4 (1975): 123-134.
. "Notes on the Nuristani and Dardic Languages." Journal of the American
Oriental Society 93:3 (1973): 297-305.
Unpublished Manuscript
Katz, David J. "Kafir to Afghan: Religious Conversion, Political Incorporation and
Ethnicity in the Waygal Valley, Nuristan." Ph.D. dissertation, University of
California, Los Angeles, 1982.
Richard F. Strand
NYAMWEZI The Nyamwezi are one of the major Bantu peoples of Tanzania
who live south of Lake Victoria in the western and lake regions. Their population
is about 3.7 million, of whom 478,000 (13 percent) are Muslim. Traditionally,
but not entirely accurately, they have been divided into three cultural subgroups:
the Nyamwezi "proper" (717,000, of whom 50 percent may be Muslim), Sukuma
(2.7 million, with 4 percent Muslim) and Sumbwa (200,000, with 4 percent
Muslim). In reality, these names reflect only the geographical locations of the
Nyamwezi people.